I recently bought a customer computer (designed by myself using a guide on PCPartsPicker), and I was wondering how to go about OC'ing this CPU since it seems pretty much MADE to OC . I have no idea about overclocking . I have a aftermarket air cooler with copper pipes and heat sinks on the CPU, and the current speed is 3.8 ghz, and the current CPU temp is around 39-42 C. I just would like somebody to tell me what the settings that I should enter into the BIOS to get this a little bit overclocked so that I am not stuck with the stock speed.

This generally depends on the particular motherboard and the firmware it contains sadly. It may be helpful to know more specific information about the precise CPU, GPU, etc that you have in your system, along with the BIOS type, version number, etc. To my understanding, as a general rule, it is the voltage on specific things that you need to modify in order to over/under clock your CPU. I'll have to check with my brother on that for you.

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